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The Godhead as he is, and God as he appears; God in the vacuous repose of Nothingness, and God in the continuous activity of a cosmos; God forever hidden in his own being and forever unknown to mortals, and God revealed in relation to man; THAT which is not perceptible to human thinking as opposed to HE who is experienceable by intuition--these differences seem to imply an inherent contradiction. Those attractive and positive attributes which we always associate with the very name God--justice, goodness, and the like--cannot be associated with the Godhead for the reason that nobody, not the greatest of mystics, knows or ever can know the Godhead.

-- Notebooks Category 28: The Alone > Chapter 2 : Our Relation To the Absolute > # 49